Jaromir Jagr of the Florida Panthers is made from parts unknown to man. He needs six more goals to pass Brett Hull (741) for second place on the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring list and 20 points to pass Gordie Howe (1,850) for third place in points.

The six-foot-nine winger John Scott, who averages six minutes a game when he dresses for the Arizona Coyotes, will be in the NHL all-star game as a fan-voted team captain, but the six-foot-nine Boston Bruins behemoth Zdeno Chara won’t be. I like the idea of Scott being there: He’s self-deprecating, an amiable giant as long as his gloves are on.

Leon Draisaitl of the Edmonton Oilers has more points than Sidney Crosby, for now.

Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne may be a stud, but he has a decidedly average save percentage (.909) and was likely picked for the all-star game because it’s in Nashville. Chicago Blackhawks’ Corey Crawford should have been selected.

This is not the way defenceman Andrew Ference should go out. Ference used to be the Edmonton captain, but the Oilers say he’s hurt now. He has played all of 4-1/2 minutes since Halloween.

Who’s hot and who’s not

Hart Trophy (MVP):

Patrick Kane (Chicago) — He scored a point in 26 straight games and has points in all but five of 42 games. He’s been in on 50 per cent of the Blackhawks’ goals.

Jamie Benn (Dallas) — Take out that one very poor night when he got benched in the third period against the New York Rangers; this guy’s a monster. He can score, he can kill penalties, he can fight. There’s a reason why he has the captain’s letter on his chest for the Western Conference’s top team.

Carey Price (Montreal) — The Canadiens were 10-2 with Price in net before he first got hurt at Edmonton in late October (probably his groin/sports hernia). The Habs are 13-14-3 without him.

Norris Trophy (top defenceman):

Drew Doughty (Los Angeles) — Call me crazy, but I don’t think it should automatically go to the defenceman who gets the most points, like Erik Karlsson. Poll the 30 NHL general managers and ask if they’d rather have Doughty or Karlsson and I bet at least two-thirds would say Doughty, who’s plus-16.

Karlsson (Ottawa) — The two-time winner plays the most minutes (28:26), a hair more than Doughty, and might get 80 points, but he’s not as strong or as good defensively as the Kings’ workhorse.

Ryan Suter (Minnesota) — He continually gets overlooked, but he plays more than 28 minutes a game against the other team’s best players and has 25 points, too.

Calder Trophy (top rookie)

Artemi Panarin (Chicago) — The Bread Man benefits from playing on the same line as Kane, but the little guy has 14 of his 15 goals while playing five-on-five. He might get as many points as his number (72) by season’s end.

Dylan Larkin (Detroit) — The19-year-old winger/centre has more points than Jack Eichel in Buffalo and is tied with L.A.’s Tyler Toffoli for the league’s best plus-minus rating (plus-22). He’s one of the league’s fastest players, too.

Colton Parayko (St. Louis) — I’m going off the board here, but the six-foot-five defenceman from St. Albert came out of nowhere and he’s playing more minutes (19) than any other rookie.

Vezina Trophy (top goalie)

Braden Holtby (Washington) — The goaltender from Lloydminster has 25 wins already and the best save percentage (.932) and goals-against average (1.93). If he gets 23 wins in the second half, he’ll tie Martin Brodeur’s NHL record of 48.

Roberto Luongo (Florida) — He’s not slowing down any at age 36. He’s got .930 save percentage and only Jonathan Quick and Cory Schneider have played more minutes.

Cory Schneider/Crawford — Schneider in New Jersey has 2.07 goals-against average and .928 save percentage while Chicago’s Crawford has six shutouts, 21 wins and .925 save percentage.

Jack Adams Award (top coach)

Barry Trotz (Washington) — The Capitals picked the right guy when they hired Trotz after he left Nashville. His players have completely bought into what he’s selling. He’s never won the Stanley Cup.

Gerard Gallant (Florida) — Another good hire by GM Dale Tallon. The Panthers are the NHL’s surprise team with lots of kids and the incomparable Jagr up front and backstop Luongo.

Lindy Ruff (Dallas) — He can be gruff, but he’s dealing with a lot of high-end offensive players and he’s got them thinking defence, too. He won in 2006 with the Buffalo Sabres.

Other things that come to mind

Everybody wants to see the Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid play, but when he broke his collarbone in early November, the folks in Pittsburgh, New York, Toronto, Boston and Chicago never got that chance. They’ll have to wait until next season.

Jagr, who turns 44 next month, has his famous mullet back. It went missing for several years, but Jagr has the hair to go with his incredible hands. He’s on pace to score 56 points.

Why did the Anaheim Ducks trade Kyle Palmieri, who’s only 24, for draft picks last June? He’s scored 17 goals in New Jersey.

I always have a smile watching Johnny Gaudreau, who looks 12 and weighs about 150 pounds.

Shane Doan scored 15 goals in his first 30 games, which is more than the 39-year-old Coyotes captain had in 79 games last season. He’s another guy defying Father Time.

Did anybody think Columbus coach John Tortorella would come back from the dead to get another coaching job after the Vancouver Canucks fired him one year into a five-year, $10-million deal?

Slam-dunk Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla, maybe the best power forward of his generation, hit the 600-goal mark. He’s one of only 19 players to accomplish the feat. Next up on the all-time goal list are Jari Kurri (601), Dino Ciccarelli (608) and Bobby Hull (610).

The best two-way forward in the game is Chicago’s Marian Hossa, who has never won the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the player who demonstrates the most skill in the defensive component of the game. It’s about time the voters recognized his selflessness and skill level.

Who knew that Ryan Getzlaf wouldn’t have one five-on-five goal this season? He’s scored once into an empty net and twice on power plays.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are the NHL’s pacifists with only two fights: Nazem Kadri and Peter Holland.

Other than Kane’s 26-game point streak (when he scored 40 points), everyone else in the league is way, way back in the distance. David Krejci, Karlsson, Bobby Ryan and Patrick Sharp all scored in only nine straight games.

Short shifts

The Los Angeles Kings are gambling that good guy Vincent Lecavalier, who has made close to $100 million in his NHL career, but sat out 22 straight games in Philadelphia, has something left in the tank before he retires at season’s end. I hope so, but many scouts are doubtful. L.A. was looking for a physical third-pairing defenceman with Matt Greene out for the year with shoulder surgery. If it doesn’t pan out with Luke Schenn, he’s an unrestricted free agent (UFA) in July. The Flyers weren’t going for re-sign Schenn with an array of younger, more mobile blue-liners coming. Here’s an interesting dynamic with the trade: L.A. general manager Dean Lombardi was dealing with his former assistant, Ron Hextall. “He knows all my tactics. It was like looking in the mirror,” said a joking Lombardi.

The Washington Capitals lost Jay Beagle, their best faceoff man and penalty-killing centre, for six weeks with hand surgery so they needed a centre and Mike Richards came cheap. The question is this: Richards has lots of hockey smarts, but is his foot speed, which was problematic in Los Angeles, any better as he moves to the Eastern Conference? Richards should be motivated to rebound. If it doesn’t work, the Capitals will have time to get somebody else at the trade deadline. Folks in Washington think Marcus Johansson can be the Caps’ No. 3 centre. If so, Beagle and Richards, who can play the wing, could be on the fourth line.

The Columbus Blue Jackets have a huge hole at centre after giving up Ryan Johansen, their best player. Quite possibly they’re angling for centre Auston Matthews in the NHL draft lottery.

There’s much talk of Columbus moving a defenceman to get some offence up front and Fedor Tyutin is definitely available. Detroit Red Wings’ Jakub Kindl, who was reportedly offered to the Edmonton Oilers for UFA free agent Jeff Petry last year, is also on the market.

The Winnipeg Jets could probably sign UFA defenceman Dustin Byfuglien tomorrow if he’d take a five-year, $35-million contract, but he wants major term to go with the dollars. He’s more valuable to the Jets than their other UFA, captain/winger Andrew Ladd, because Byfuglien is the NHL’s most unique player.

Lost in the hoopla around dazzling Finnish world junior wingers Jesse Puljujarvi and six-foot-four, 210-pound Patrik Laine, who could go among the top-five selections at June’s NHL entry draft, was the play of their excellent pivot, Sebastian Aho. The Carolina Hurricanes’ second-rounder pick (35th overall) in the 2015 draft has lots of tools. “He hasn’t been lost in the shuffle in my eyes. He’s a winger playing centre, so I like his adaptability,” said Carolina coach Bill Peters. “I know how dynamic he was at our (training) camp. I don’t think he’s far away from playing (in the NHL).”

I’m betting Sam Gagner, who’s playing in the American Hockey League for the first time, gets traded by Philadelphia before the season’s over because teams are always looking for offence. Most scouts think Gagner has to change the way he plays and make himself more versatile and stronger defensively. “Lots of players go through this — Danny Briere went through it, Ray Whitney, too,” said Anaheim Ducks centre Shawn Horcoff. Briere was sent to the minors in 2000 after playing 82 games with the Phoenix Coyotes while Whitney was released by the Edmonton Oilers in 1997 after the San Jose Sharks didn’t want him any longer. Current Calgary Flames assistant coach Martin Gelinas was released twice within four years of winning a Stanley Cup with the Oilers in 1990. “It’s not a death knell,” Horcoff added. “It’s better that Sam’s in the minors playing; it’s better than being in Philly and just practising.”

Sherwood Park’s Daniel Carr has five goals and seven points in 14 games since his call-up to the Montreal Canadiens. “He’s like a dog on a bone. He won’t let go,” said one pro scout, who says Carr’s desire to stay in the big leagues will win out. “There’s guys who play hockey and then there’s hockey players. Carr’s a hockey player.”

Every year at this time, people start asking if Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan, who is still chasing his first Stanley Cup, wants to get traded out of the desert. It’s not going to happen. “It used to be there were two or three teams that everybody thought could win the Cup, now there’s eight or nine,” said one NHL executive. “How can a player pick the right one (to ask to be traded to)?” Indeed, when defenceman Ray Bourque got traded to the Colorado Avalanche in 1999, he knew he had a great shot at winning.

Former first-round draft pick Shea Theodore looks like a major talent in Anaheim. The defenceman has a long reach and is a strong skater, which will allow the Ducks to trade another young defenceman for a forward, if they want. Most scouts believe that Sami Vatanen, a strong power-play guy and puck-mover, will be their bargaining chip.

Ex-Oilers chief scout Barry Fraser watched the world junior hockey championship in Finland and marvelled at far the tournament has come. “I remember being at the world junior in the Czech Republic in 1976-77 and I was one of two scouts there,” Fraser said. “Now there’s 100-plus, I’m sure. The fans then were mostly family and friends. There were no programs or lineups for us.”

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